Adam
axolotl.bsky.social
Adam
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i used math to answer the important question: "what if we did halftone printing with a pentagonal grid of dots instead of a square grid"?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Q: wait, there's no such thing as a grid of regular pentagons
A: i know, right?!
November 2, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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'Often I am asked "Who are the algorists?"  Simply put an algorist is anyone who works with algorithms.  Historically we have viewed algorists as mathematicians.  But it also applies to artists who create art using algorithmic procedures that include their own algorithms.' RV

http://algorists.org/
August 3, 2023 at 11:28 PM
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If you liked the ‘hat’ aperiodic monotile, and haven’t heard about the follow-up, the Spectre, which is even better, you are one of today’s lucky 10,000 - Simon Tatham has you covered: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/qu...
Combinatorial coordinates for the aperiodic Spectre tiling
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
December 7, 2023 at 8:19 AM
December 11, 2023 at 8:40 PM
New job has irredental coverage. I'm gonna track down the guy who took out my wisdom teeth and get them back
December 11, 2023 at 8:40 PM
Game of Life nerds have completed a multi-decade research program! arxiv.org/abs/2312.02799

For all n, there are oscillators of period n.

I've been spying on their Discord and there was great jubilation when n=19 and 41 got found.
Conway's Game of Life is Omniperiodic
In the theory of cellular automata, an oscillator is a pattern that repeats itself after a fixed number of generations; that number is called its period. A cellular automaton is called...
arxiv.org
December 11, 2023 at 8:40 PM
hi
December 11, 2023 at 8:39 PM